Word: collector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until a few thousand years ago. Aepyornis was ten feet tall, could not fly, laid eggs bigger than footballs. The Malagasy still find an occasional Aepyornis egg and sell it for as much as five or ten head of cattle to the Frenchmen, who then sell it to a collector or museum for as much as five or ten thousand dollars...
Then there is the excitement every collector knows at finding a long-sought item, in this case a worn wax disc with a little music still audible if you listen for it. There is the assurance, never to be contradicted, that you yourself, endowed with the necessary technique, could improvise a jazz solo worthy of a Louis Armstrong. There is also the glow of superiority at being a member of a somewhat select, if ever-growing, minority to which names like Pee-Wee Russell and records like "Knockin' a Jug" mean something. And finally, there is the appreciation which...
...Rousseau's creations, Manhattan gallery-goers did their best to find a U.S. Rousseau among their crop of self-taught U.S. artists. And though they failed, they found that U.S. primitives had turned out some quaint and naively appealing canvases. Of the 30 U.S. primitive artists selected by Collector Janis to be shown at the Marie Harriman Gallery the best...
Though many a well-known art collector has paid high prices for his lava-like statues, Sculptor Lipchitz is living from hand to mouth in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, worried because poverty and U.S. war priorities have deprived him of his favorite material: bronze. Lacking bronze, he will try wood for portrait heads and terra cotta for garden sculpture which he wistfully hopes the U.S. will want...
Died. Sir Jeremiah Colman, 82, millionaire mustard maker and famed orchid collector; in Reigate, England. Chairman of the board of J. & J. Colman, Ltd., founded by his grandfather, developed by his father, he liked to explain that his wealth was made "not by the mustard people ate, but by the mustard left on their plates...